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We follow 15 year old Chantelle and her 10 year old brother Leon through their low class struggles along with typical teenage struggles. When Alexis 'Lexi' James falls out with her best mate Nicole over 'bad boy' Ryan King, it's just the beginning of a chain of events that go from bad to worse to deadly. In Manchester I fronted an original rock band, and also sang session for various jazz and reggae musicians.Late,r her father’s sister dies whom she never met and fortunately Maria became the heir of her fortune. She explains that her name is Irena and was brought to this country by a man who promised her the world and then forced her into prostitution.

But Leon has made some new friends: teenage gang members who have given him a mobile phone, a knife - and some drugs to hide in her flat. Later she meets Joel Parry, who is very charming and a handsome young man looking for a place to stay. Trying to rob a small supermarket in Manchester sounds like easy money, but after one dead body and one of the four wounded, it turns out this non-threatening supermarket was actually a front for a much bigger and more sinister operation – and the friends have bitten off much more than they can chew.It took me only a matter of pages to adore the studious and sensible young girl, and lead character Chantelle.

You can follow me here, if you wish, and you can chat to me directly if you join me on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. But, they lack emotion, there is no emotional connection with them, no bond, they are just characters in a book. Chantelle does her best to look after Leon, but the situation rapidly spirals out of control when Chantelle bites off more than she can chew.

The ending of the book is very good and happy and people became fond of this novel because Mandasue Heller gave a realistic story of the Hulme Crescent.

When Frank Peter's wife Maureen dies, he feels that his once-idyllic life on the Yorkshire Moors is over. They could the supermarket is merely The Front for something bigger, and the friends are small fish who have unwittingly plunged into a very big pond. I had read the synopsis and was looking forward to getting stuck into another gritty crime book and I wasn’t disappointed! Lisa Noone is the main character of the book, who is twelve years old and lives with her mum near Westy Lane where all the murders are happening.Harry Shaw is the boy everyone loves to bully, the kid whose own mother locked him in a closet so she wouldn t have to look at his ugly face.